Freddie DeBose Quotations

To visualize it here in South Carolina, it would be like Garden City or Surfside flattened.

The living conditions down there are horrible, but with what we have to accomplish, we'll be working so hard we won't be concerned with ourselves. We've seen the pictures on TV and we've seen the still photos in newspapers and so forth, but until you go and travel those streets and see everything yourself, you cannot imagine or comprehend what has happened down there. It's gut-wrenching.

Some of the water system is up and running, but they haven't gotten water to a point to where the customers can use it or even boil it for use.

I tried very hard not to cripple the city. I tried to select men that wouldn't cripple their families and give them hardships.